Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair her brother Lazarus was ill. The people in the city keep wondering, will Jesus show up for Passover? Is he going risk death to come to Jerusalem? Dun dun dun.Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.Later, as Passover nears again, many people start going to Jerusalem to get ready for the festivities.He and the disciples head for Ephraim, which is north of the city.Because of all the we're-going-to-kill-you craziness, Jesus doesn't go to Jerusalem anymore.So, that day they decide: they are going to have Jesus executed.Caiaphas, the high priest, tells them all that it would be better for just one man to die than for the entire nation to be destroyed.They might even march in with an army and destroy the city. If the Romans-the guys in charge of the country-catch wind of this, they will not be amused. If all your friends started following the Messiah, would you? Jesus's miracles are getting bigger and better all the time. As you might imagine, they're pretty miffed.But others sneak off to let the religious authorities know what Jesus is up to. Because of all this impressive stuff, lots more people start believing in Jesus.And out pops Lazarus, still wrapped up like a mummy, but now very much alive.When the tomb is open, Jesus says a prayer to God and then yells, "Lazarus, come out!".It's going to smell pretty bad when they open the tomb. She reminds Jesus that Lazarus has been in there for four days. Jesus dries his tears and surveys the tomb it's a cave with a stone lying against it as a door.The guy healed a blind man-he couldn't keep someone from dying? Others think that, if he loved him so much, maybe he should have come earlier and saved him. Some of the people think it's touching that Jesus is weeping because he loved Lazarus so much.When he gets there, he breaks down and cries. If only Jesus had come earlier, Lazarus wouldn't have died. After he finishes with Martha, Jesus has the same conversation with her sister Mary.She knows that he is the Messiah, God's son, and all that jazz. Martha tells him that, yes, she believes all this.Jesus tells her that he is "the resurrection and the life." People who believe it are never really going to die.But that's not quite what Jesus has in mind.He's going to rise up at the end of time like you're always saying. Jesus tells her that Lazarus will rise again. But she also has a feeling that Jesus could still do something for them. She tells him that, if he had come sooner, her brother wouldn't have died.
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